Five Helen Hayes Awards will be handed out tonight in this, the third of seven nights of streamed presentations for the 2020 Helen Hayes Awards. You are invited to be part of the Zoom audience.
So who will forever be known as a 2020 Helen Hayes Award recipient? If you can’t be in the audience, find real time announcements on theatreWashington’s social media: Facebook, Twitter and Instagram, check back here (we’ll update the list). Missed it? See all presentations on YouTube.
Tonight’s presenters:
Deidre LaWan Starnes and Felicia Curry!
6:30pm
Outstanding Supporting Performer in a Musical – Helen
| Teresa Danskey | Fame, The Musical
GALA Hispanic Theatre |
| Susan Oliveras | Fame, The Musical
GALA Hispanic Theatre |
| Molly Rumberger | Be More Chill
Monumental Theatre Company |
| Molly Rumberger | Disenchanted!
Creative Cauldron |
| Alana Thomas | Little Shop of Horrors
Constellation Theatre Company |
| Chani Wereley | Little Shop of Horrors
Constellation Theatre Company |
| Marty Austin Lamar | Little Shop of Horrors
Constellation Theatre Company |
| Christian Montgomery | Be More Chill
Monumental Theatre Company |
| Josh Simon | Disney’s Beauty and the Beast
Creative Cauldron |
| Fashad Tyler | Black Nativity
Anacostia Playhouse |
| Greg Watkins | Legally Blonde
The Keegan Theatre |
7:15pm
Outstanding Costume Design – Hayes
| Tracy Christensen
| Love’s Labor’s Lost
Folger Theatre |
| Mariah Anzaldo Hale
| Nell Gwynn
Folger Theatre |
| Wade Laboissonniere
| Into the Woods
Ford’s Theatre |
| Pei Lee | Roald Dahl’s Matilda the Musical
Olney Theatre Center |
| Merrily Murray-Walsh | Jubilee
Arena Stage |
Outstanding Costume Design – Helen
| Kristen Ahern | Daddy Long Legs
Monumental Theatre Company |
| Jeanette Christensen | Elephant & Piggie’s “We Are In A Play!”
Adventure Theatre MTC |
| Alison Samantha Johnson
| Cyrano de Bergerac
Synetic Theater |
| Frank Labovitz | Little Shop of Horrors
Constellation Theatre Company |
| Amy MacDonald | Blood at the Root
Theater Alliance |
8:00pm
Outstanding Original Play or Musical Adaptation
| Dane Figueroa Edidi | Klytmnestra: An Epic Slam Poem
Theater Alliance |
| Patrick Flynn | The Velveteen Rabbit Adventure Theatre MTC |
| Ellen McLaughlin | The Oresteia
Shakespeare Theatre Company |
| Matt Minnicino | A Misanthrope
Avant Bard Theatre |
| Tom Warburton, Mo Willems, Deborah Wicks La Puma | Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus! The Musical
The Kennedy Center |
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